If you carry one thing with you today, let it be this: you are beautiful, you matter, and you are loved.
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I’ve looked into a mobility scooter. You have to pay for that, even to use one temporarily, so no. I don’t think I’d even be considered disabled enough for a wheelchair on the NHS and even if I was, you often have to pay towards that anyway. I have been lent crutches on the NHS for free but it’s hard getting around on them, I don’t have much upper body strength.
Hmm. Sometimes you can find a cheap wheelchair for sale but its always one of those unmotorised ones and that may not be a solution if you don’t have the upper body strength, and they’re a nightmare to get into busses if you don’t have someone to set up the ramp. I wish I had a solution for you. All I can say is hang in there and I hope it gets better.